dot-com

A form of dotcom — A company whose business is based around a website or primarily via the Internet.

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Meanings

noundot-com (plural dot-coms)

plural dot-coms

  1. InternetalternativeAlternative form of dotcom.

    Dot-com companies are different from the traditional 'brick and mortar' in many ways ...

    2001, Banking & Finance, Academic Foundation, →ISBN, page 46
verbdot-com (third-person singular simple present dot-coms, present participle dot-comming, simple past and past participle dot-commed)

present singular third person dot-coms · participle present dot-comming · participle past dot-commed · past dot-commed

  1. InternetalternativeAlternative form of dotcom.

    In July 1999, while I was dot-comming in Virginia, Governor Bush went to Indianapolis, home of Mayor Stephen Goldsmith's “Front Porch Alliance.”

    2006, David Kuo, Tempting Faith: An Inside Story of Political Seduction, →ISBN
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    Check to see if your name—or any Web site name you pick—has been dot-commed yet at any of several Web sites that oversee domain-name registration, such as ...

    2001, Samantha Miller, E-Mail Etiquette, →ISBN

    When I landed in New York, I went straight to work—finding the refi boom accelerating at an exponential rate. In 2000, Americans had dot-commed themselves to death; in 2001, they were mortgaging themselves to death.

    2010, Jordan Belfort, Catching the Wolf of Wall Street, →ISBN

Synonyms & antonyms

nouna company that operates its business primarily on the internet using a URL that ends in ‘.com’

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Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Cite this entry
APA

dot-com. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dot-com

MLA

“dot-com.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dot-com. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “dot-com,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dot-com.

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